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"enclosed in double quotes"
literals
- strings in single quotes
  'My, what a handy sheet of paper.'
  concatenate with comma, e.g
  'vio','lin' => 'violin'
- character, prefixed by $, e.g
  'Bach' first => $B
- symbol, prefixed by hash, e.g.
  #symbolName
assignment...not just equals*
variable := expression
*Whole thing evaluates to simplification of expression
messages (in order of precedence)*
- unary messages
  recipient methodName
- binary messages, e.g. +, -, *, etc.
  operand1 operator operand2
- keyword messages with colons (i.e. with arguments)
  recipient keyword1: argument1 keyword2: argument ...
*Note that recipient can be an instance or a class. Classes are objects, too.
consecutive messages with semicolon*
recipient message1; message2; ...
*Sends message1, message2, ... to recipient in order.
return value from inside a method with caret*
^returnExpression
*default return value is self
temporary (local to method/block) variable declarations with pipes
| tempVar1 tempVar2 ... |
blocks (a.k.a. closures), akin to Scheme/Haskell lamdas, with square brackets
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